On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 11:20:16PM -0400, Hindle, Greg wrote:
> You can go to Symantec website and issue a please add request. If enough
> users do this they will fix one of the reporting tools to include this
> info. Here is the website...

I've talked directly to one of the NetBackup product managers and she
told me that it's on the list of things to be added.  However, that will
only fix the problem going forward - you'll have to update your master
and clients to whatever base they fix it in, and then we'll finally have
our fix.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 6:47 PM
> To: Sean Clarke
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Remotely Finding Version _AND_ patch level
> 
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 11:42:10PM +0100, Sean Clarke wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I am in the process of writing a script to audit the Netbackup 
> > versions installed on our clients and to generate alerts of our 
> > current standard version is not installed. This was done via a 
> > spreadsheet until I found a box with 3.2 on it and decided that enough
> 
> > was enough :-(
> > 
> > For our UNIX/Linux boxes this can be done using a loop over the output
> 
> > of bpclclients that calls bpcoverage. However what I have noticed for 
> > Windows clients is that it only reports the version number and not the
> 
> > patch level (apart from a couple of NT4 boxes on 4.5FP6 bizarrely).
> > 
> > Our master and media servers are on 5.1, most clients are on 5.1 with 
> > a few ancient machines on 4.5.
> > 
> > I logged a support call with Verimantec and the response was - nope 
> > not implemented.......sorry!
> > 
> > Anyone know how to remotely get the NBU patch level installed on 
> > Windows machines from a UNIX master server?
> 
> It simply can't be done. Various versions have reporting things
> differently.  You'll have different results with bpgetconfig,
> bpcoverage, and using other unsupported hacks, but there is no one
> consistent way to get the versions across all clients.
> 
>         .../Ed
> 
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